Haunted Machines

Joanne McNeil at Haunted Machines

presented by Joanne McNeil

I’m going to talk about things that scare me on the Internet, things that I’m afraid of, and things that maybe we can’t yet make a hor­ror film. We def­i­nite­ly can’t make a film as bad as The Ruins about this stuff, but I would say it’s a lot scari­er than The Ruins, which is just gross.

Ingrid Burrington at Haunted Machines

presented by Ingrid Burrington

I think there’s some­thing inter­est­ing about a dis­ci­pline that his­tor­i­cal­ly is tied to polit­i­cal intrigue, to secre­cy, being linked into this debate over what is good mag­ic or true divine mag­ic, and what is the work of demons. And I think there is some­thing inter­est­ing to be said about the moment we are in right now and how states them­selves kind of iden­ti­fy and invent exis­ten­tial threats to jus­ti­fy their own behavior.

Haunted Machines Morning Panel

presented by Ingrid Burrington, Joanne McNeil, Tobias Revell, Warren Ellis

Pretty much any­thing that Lucifer says in Paradise Lost, you could prob­a­bly imag­ine the CEO of Uber say­ing. They’re just dis­rupt­ing the Heavenly orders, you know. They real­ly need­ed it.

Wizards, Mystics, Gods & Monsters

presented by Eleanor Saitta

As any work­ing mage knows, the first thing that hap­pens when you bring up a lot of pow­er is that you have to fig­ure out how you’re going to chan­nel it. Now ide­al­ly, if you’re not an idiot, you fig­ure that out before you bring the pow­er up. Unfortunately this is Silicon Valley we’re talk­ing about, so that’s real­ly not on the table.

Chardine Taylor Stone at Haunted Machines

presented by Chardine Taylor-Stone

Afrofuturism is real­ly about the black body and the black mind see­ing itself put into a space that is beyond the white suprema­cist struc­ture that we’re cur­rent­ly in at the moment.

Crafting Visions

presented by Georgina Voss

It’s the expec­ta­tions them­selves that start to change the mate­r­i­al qual­i­ties of our world, the mate­r­i­al qual­i­ties around sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy, around our polit­i­cal activ­i­ties. That it’s not just that the entrails have been read, but the fact that you now have to make a deci­sion whether you’re going to heed that warn­ing or not.

Haunted Machines Afternoon Panel

presented by Chardine Taylor-Stone, Eleanor Saitta, Georgina Voss, Natalie Kane

The whole point of myth is that it’s just the kind of ambi­ent stuff of cul­ture that you can reach out and do what­ev­er you need to do with. Yes, it means things, sort of, it has dis­po­si­tions, it has ten­den­cies, but you could rewrite all of that.